2 Corinthians 8:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And going even farther than our hope, they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us after the purpose of God.

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  • 1 Sam 1:28 : 28 So I have given him to the Lord; for all his life he is the Lord's. Then he gave the Lord worship there.
  • 1 Chr 12:18 : 18 Then the spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, We are yours, David, we are on your side, O son of Jesse: may peace be with you and peace be with your helpers; for God is your helper. Then David took them into his army and made them captains of the band.
  • 2 Chr 30:8 : 8 Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.
  • 2 Chr 30:12 : 12 And in Judah the power of God gave them one heart to do the orders of the king and the captains, which were taken as the word of the Lord.
  • Isa 44:3-5 : 3 For I will send water on the land needing it, and streams on the dry earth: I will let my spirit come down on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring. 4 And they will come up like grass in a well-watered field, like water-plants by the streams. 5 One will say, I am the Lord's; and another will give himself the name, Jacob; another will put a mark on his hand, I am the Lord's, and another will take the name of Israel for himself.
  • Jer 31:33 : 33 But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
  • Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.
  • Rom 6:13 : 13 And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
  • Rom 12:1 : 1 For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.
  • Rom 14:7-9 : 7 For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself. 8 As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's. 9 And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.
  • 1 Cor 6:19-20 : 19 Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves; 20 For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus.
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death; 15 And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.
  • 2 Cor 8:1 : 1 And now we give you news, brothers, about the grace of God which has been given to the churches of Macedonia;

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  • 2 Cor 8:1-4
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    1And now we give you news, brothers, about the grace of God which has been given to the churches of Macedonia;

    2How while they were undergoing every sort of trouble, and were in the greatest need, they took all the greater joy in being able to give freely to the needs of others.

    3For I give them witness, that as they were able, and even more than they were able, they gave from the impulse of their hearts,

    4Seriously requesting us that they might have a part in this grace of being servants to the needs of the saints:

  • 2 Cor 8:6-8
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    6So that we made a request to Titus that, as he had made a start before, so he might make this grace complete in you.

    7And that as you are full of every good thing, of faith, of the word, of knowledge, of a ready mind, and of love to us, so you may be full of this grace in the same way.

    8I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.

  • 1 Thess 2:8-9
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    8Even so, being full of loving desire for you, we took delight in giving you not only God's good news, but even our lives, because you were dear to us.

    9For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.

  • 2 Cor 8:19-22
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    19And not only so, but he was marked out by the churches to go with us in the grace of this giving which we have undertaken to the glory of the Lord and to make clear that our mind was ready:

    20And so that no man might be able to say anything against us in the business of this giving which has been put into our hands:

    21For the business has been so ordered by us as to have the approval, not only of the Lord, but of men.

    22And we have sent with them our brother, whose ready spirit has been made clear to us at times and in ways without number, but it is now all the more so because of the certain faith which he has in you.

  • 2 Cor 8:16-17
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    16But praise be to God, who puts the same care for you into the heart of Titus.

    17For while he gladly gave ear to our request, he was interested enough to go to you from the impulse of his heart.

  • 1 Thess 2:4-6
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    4But even as the good news was given to us by the approval of God, so we give it out; not as pleasing men, but God by whom our hearts are tested.

    5For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,

    6Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 9:5
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    5So it seemed to me wise for the brothers to go before, and see that the amount which you had undertaken to give was ready, so that it might be a cause for praise, and not as if we were making profit out of you.

  • 1 Thess 1:8-9
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    8For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything.

    9For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

  • 2 Thess 3:8-9
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    8And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you:

    9Not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, so that you might do the same.

  • 1 Thess 1:5-6
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    5Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.

    6And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;

  • 2 Cor 1:11-12
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    11You at the same time helping together by your prayer for us; so that for what has been given to us through a number of persons, praise may go up to God for us from all of them.

    12For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

  • 2 Cor 1:8-9
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    8For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life:

    9Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead:

  • 2 Cor 9:13
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    13For when, through this work of giving, they see what you are, they give glory to God for the way in which you have given yourselves to the good news of Christ, and for the wealth of your giving to them and to all;

  • 2 Cor 1:24
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    24Not that we have authority over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy: for it is faith which is your support.

  • 1 Thess 2:1
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    1For you yourselves, brothers, are conscious that our coming among you was not without effect:

  • 2 Cor 1:15
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    15And being certain of this, it was my purpose to come to you before, so that you might have a second grace;

  • 2 Cor 8:12
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    12For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.

  • 2 Thess 1:11-12
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    11For this reason, you are ever in our prayers, that you may seem to our God such as may have a part in his purpose and that by his power he will make all his good purpose, and the work of faith, complete;

    12So that glory may be given to the name of our Lord Jesus through you, and you may have glory in him, by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 1 Thess 4:1
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    1And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.

  • 2 Cor 4:5
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    5For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus.

  • 2 Cor 8:24
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    24Make clear then to them, as representatives of the churches, the quality of your love, and that the things which we have said about you are true.

  • 2 Thess 3:4-5
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    4And we have faith in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things about which we give you orders.

    5And may your hearts be guided by the Lord into the love of God and quiet waiting for Christ.

  • 1 Thess 3:6-7
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    6But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;

    7For this cause, brothers, in all our trouble and grief we were comforted about you because of your faith;

  • 1 Thess 1:3
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    3Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

  • Phlm 1:14
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    14But without your approval I would do nothing; so that your good works might not be forced, but done freely from your heart.

  • 3 John 1:7
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    7For they went out for love of the Name, taking nothing from the Gentiles.

  • 1 Thess 3:9
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    9For how great is the praise which we give to God for you, and how great the joy with which we are glad because of you before our God;

  • 2 Cor 10:15
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    15Not taking credit to ourselves for what is not our business, that is, for the work of others; but having hope that, with the growth of your faith, we may get the credit for an increase which is the effect of our work,

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12We are not again requesting your approval, but we are giving you the chance of taking pride in us, so that you may be able to give an answer to those whose glory is in seeming, and not in the heart.

  • 2 Thess 2:16
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    16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who had love for us and has given us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,